Profile: McClellan had a strong 2010 season as a reliever, but was asked to come into the rotation to help cover for the loss of Adam Wainwright, an experiment that yielded relatively poor results. McClellan eventually fell out of the rotation, but couldn’t recapture his prior success he had in the bullpen either, though there’s reason to believe that reason for his end-of-season ineffectiveness was the fatigue of throwing nearly twice as many professional innings as his previous career high. If a full-time return to the bullpen helps iron out his issues, he’ll get plenty of holds at the end of games and could be the next in line to close if Jason Motte can’t keep the job. Draft McClellan only if you need holds from an SP-eligible reliever, though, as there’s no way to predict how new manager Mike Matheny will handle a closer change if one is even necessary. (Dan Wade)

The Quick Opinion: The Cardinals aren’t likely to use McClellan as a swingman the way they did in 2011, which ought to help him perform much better than he did. However, he doesn’t yet appear to be in a position that will net him much in the way of counting stats, except maybe a few holds.